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78th Annual School For Highway Superintendents

Teamsters Local 294 & LOCAL 317 Organizers and Agents partook at the 78th Annual School For Highway Superintendents, Co-Sponsored by the Town and County Officers Training School, New York Association of Towns and The NYS LTAP Center - Cornell Local Roads Program. The event at Ithaca College featured Highway workers from over 600 municipalities in New York State. Attendees were able to learn more about organizing with the Teamsters Union and were also able to test their skills on Local 294’s mobile driving simulator. Local 317 is getting closer everyday to starting up the Local 317 Driving School which will be a driving force between the two Local Unions and have the ability to train and prepare the most professional drivers on the road!

NYS Second Bottle Bill

Teamsters Local 317 Business Agents Tim BeVard & John Sterling joined State Senator Christopher J. Ryan as he highlighted his legislation, S7722, to modernize New York’s Bottle Deposit and Redemption System. The bill proposes smart, targeted reforms to address inefficiencies, crack down on fraud, support independent redemption centers, and protect jobs—without raising costs on working New Yorkers. New York’s original Bottle Bill was enacted in 1982. While it helped reduce litter and improve recycling, it has not kept pace with changes in the beverage industry, recycling markets, or the economic realities facing small businesses and redemption centers. Each year, over $100 million in redeemable containers go unclaimed in New York—revenue lost not just to consumers but also to the state’s broader environmental goals.

Teamsters Local 264 reach Tentative Agreement after strike

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) — Shuttle bus drivers and cashiers at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga reached a tentative agreement Wednesday after they went on strike Monday. Teamsters Local 264 said Wednesday that they reached a tentative agreement that “includes language that provides better safety conditions for the members of the public.” The workers also plan to go back to work on Thursday. “When you have holes in the floor of your bus, when you have exposed electrical compartments, when you have bald tires, expired inspected vehicles, tires falling off during operations with passengers on the bus, you can’t have it,” said Darrin Ziemba, an officer and agent of Teamsters Local 264. “Look how busy this facility is, there is no reason for this, there’s enough to go around. These folks should have the pinnacle vehicles to use when they come to work, they should have enough in their paycheck when the average worker here makes less than $17 an hour. An extra few pennies makes a difference in the world to those folks.”

Know Your Enemy: The Organizations Attacking Unions in the USA

This year the number of politicians and corporations attacking labor unions is on the rise. Project 2025, the far-right blueprint developed for the second Trump administration, outlines ways for states to ban public employee labor unions. Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and fellow tech billionaire Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon are spearheading the corporate-led effort to disband the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the independent federal agency responsible for regulating private sector employers. President Trump has dismantled the federal mediation service and outlawed collective bargaining for more than one million government employees. On top of all this, well-funded anti-labor organizations — many of which have been operating for half a century or more — continue to focus on states and municipalities in order to further decimate labor unions and workers’ rights. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has identified the top six organizations working at the state and local levels to dismantle labor regulations and the rights to organize and collectively bargain. Since many of these organizations share the same funding sources, funding information has been provided for some, but not all, organizations. Many of these organizations are members of the State Policy Network (SPN), a right-wing network that has spearheaded an extensive operation to “defund and defang” unions since 2016 in order to “deal a major blow to the left’s ability to control government at the state and national levels.” Click the picture for full article

Protect America's Workforce Act

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, introduced this bill, the "Protect America's Workforce Act," with Golden. The bill was sponsored by Democratic Reps. Donald Norcross, of New Jersey; Mark Pocan, of Wisconsin; and Debbie Dingell, of Michigan. It was also sponsored by Republican Reps. Nick LaLota, of New York; Mike Turner, of Ohio; and Mike Lawler, of New York. "Lately, a lot of the things that this administration has done has enjoyed 100% support among Republicans," Golden said. "I think it sends a pretty strong message to them, just a couple of days after this executive order is released, to see a bill come forward with three or four Republicans in the House saying, in fact, that they are opposed to this action. It may potentially get the White House to reconsider." When the executive order was announced late Thursday, Trump said the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with federal unions in these agencies because of their role in safeguarding national security. "In his order, President Trump said that federal workers' rights are incompatible with national security. He is wrong. Union workers make America stronger every single day, including the more than 6,000 federal workers in Maine," Golden said in a statement. "Throughout our history, unions have ensured workers got a fair shake in the workplace. Unions built our middle class, and are key to strengthening its future. We cannot have a government that undermines workers' rights."

Summer Fun

Identity Theft Protection

New Benefit for Teamster Local 317 Members !

Teamsters Local 317 – ID Resolution

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Teamsters Board of Trustees approved New Voluntary Insurance Benefits from Allstate Benefits

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NATIONAL MASTER UNITED PARCEL SERVICE AGREEMENT

For The Period August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2028

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NY Teamsters Benefits Fund

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TEAMSTERS HORSEMEN CHAPTER 18

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The Teamster Horsemen Motorcycle Association Inc. is a non-profit organization Incorporated in the State of Illinois, with the principal offices located in Sugar Grove, Illinois.

The National organization shall also be the Main Association for all Affiliates, and shall have jurisdiction over all Chapters affiliated therewith and over matters pertaining to the membership of such Chapters.

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS

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The Teamsters are America’s largest, most diverse union. The Teamsters are known as the champion of freight drivers and warehouse workers, but have organized workers in virtually every occupation imaginable, both professional and non-professional, private sector and public sector.There are nearly 1,900 Teamster affiliates throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Teamsters stand ready to organize workers who want to bargain collectively. Once a contract is negotiated and signed, the Union works to enforce it—holding management’s feet to the fire and invoking contract grievance procedures if management chooses not to. Wages and benefits under Teamster contracts are markedly better than those of non-union employees in similar jobs. Teamster contracts are the guarantors of decent wages, fair promotion, health coverage, job security, paid time-off and retirement income.

The Teamsters Union also performs vital tasks in such areas as pension management, safety & health, community outreach, governmental affairs and communications. For more than a century, the Teamsters have been a public voice for the rights and aspirations of working men and women and a key player in securing them

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent federal agency created in 1935 and vested with the power to safeguard employees’ rights to organize, engage with one another to seek better working conditions, choose whether or not to have a collective bargaining representative negotiate on their behalf with their employer, or refrain from doing so. The NLRB also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions, as well as conducts secret-ballot elections regarding union representation. The NLRB is a bifurcated agency governed on one side by a five-person Board and on the other side by a General Counsel. Board Members and the General Counsel are appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. The responsibilities and functions of the Agency under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, as amended, are carried out by the National Labor Relations Board and its General Counsel, who, in addition to independent authority under the statute, exercises other authority by delegation from the Board.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Address: 3300 Vickery Rd, Syracuse, NY 13212

Phone: (800) 321-6742

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The Department of Labor administers federal labor laws to guarantee workers' rights to fair, safe, and healthy working conditions, including minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, protection against employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance.

Know Your Rights Toolkit

The toolkit has information on workers’ organizing rights and protections against retaliation, which help support the Department of Labor’s mission to protect workers.

For 95 years, Ullico has been a champion for the American worker and as the only labor-owned insurance and investment company, Ullico has gained the trust of union members and employees to protect their families, employees, businesses and investments.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Most employers with at least 15 employees are covered by EEOC laws (20 employees in age discrimination cases). Most labor unions and employment agencies are also covered.

The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.

Over the past decade, many states have made tremendous strides on moving away from arcane, draconian drug criminalization policies towards legalization for commercial and recreational cannabis. As this shift in policy has come, business empires around cannabis have grown exponentially, reaping billions of dollars in revenue in just a few short years. The Teamsters Union is building a grassroots movement of workers committed to ensuring that the people who make these companies succeed aren’t left out of the prosperity associated with this budding industry.

If you are in the process of obtaining your License and are looking for a Union to sign your required Labor Peace Agreement, or you are a Cannabis Employee and are currently not in a Union- Call Teamsters Local 317 today!